The world
champion boxer not only has a history of winning trophies and plaudits for his boxing skills, he also has a disturbing history of violence against women.
There have been some previous metaphors about
champion boxers not meeting challenges from drunks.
Not exact matches
Conor McGregor didn't win against Floyd Mayweather Jr, but the UFC's lightweight
champion did better than many expected in his debut as a professional
boxer.
This week, BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is up against world
champion boxer Carl Frampton (no,
not in a ring) and Nobby Butcher, aka comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
Washed - up former
boxer Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) hasn't had much luck «managing» a string of beat - up bots until he hits it big with Atom, a sparring partner machine that improbably becomes a
champion contender.
Murphy is an arrogant, fast - talking
champion boxer named Kelly Robinson, the sort of guy who refers to himself in the third person and who talks so fast you sometimes can't understand him.
(The subtext suggests it's «because my father failed to instill any self - worth in me except that which I can offer as a
champion boxer», but I'm
not sure that is actually intentional.)
It's
not the story of a
boxer who becomes
champion, but simply the story of a
boxer who gets a shot.
Considering how expertly the two signature films in the genre — Rocky and Raging Bull — covered the
boxer's journey of the fall of a
champion and the making of a
champion, there's
not a lot of gold to be mined for new material.
Inside the clinic, James is surrounded by patients as troubled as he is — including a judge, a mobster, a one - time world -
champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute to whom he is
not allowed to speak - but their friendship and advice strikes James as stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover.
Normally I'd blame their behavior on them being evil, but come on, if you found an ice alien in your backyard, wouldn't YOU be curious as to whether or
not he could beat up a
champion boxer?